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Sonia Suchday, Ph.D.

Position/Role: Founding Director

Dr. Sonia Suchday is a Clinical Health Psychologist with over 25 years of experience. A first-generation immigrant from Mumbai, India she is a dedicated leader, educator, program builder, and researcher. She has embraced diversity in every aspect of her life, research, education, and leadership. She is currently Professor and Chair of the Psychology Department at Pace University. Dr. Suchday is the former chair of the US National Committee on Psychological Sciences at the National Academy of Sciences and is a representative of the International Union of Psychological Sciences to the United Nations. As the former founding Co-Director of the Institute of Public Health Sciences at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Dr. Suchday has extensive experience in building international educational and research programs and international partnerships. She has organized prestigious conferences including one on diversity and disparity. Dr. Suchday’s research spans diverse, interdisciplinary topics such as the effects of anger and hostility on health, acculturation among Chinese immigrants, and the effects of globalization in emergent markets such as India. Her recent work includes the effects of spirituality on health and wellbeing. 

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William (Bill) Salton, Ph.D.

Position/Role: Clinical Director

Dr. William Salton received his Ph. D. in Clinical Psychology from New York University in 1993. He has also received post-graduate certifications in child and adolescent psychotherapy from the New York University Medical Center Psychoanalytic Institute and in family forensics from the Washington Square Institute. Currently, he is a Clinical Professor and the Training Clinic Director at the Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology of Yeshiva University. This has grown to be one of the four largest graduate psychology training clinics in the United States. In addition, he has created and directs Ferkauf’s Marriage and Family Therapy master’s degree program, the Political Asylum Seekers Project and the Diversity Speaker’s Series. He is also the faculty advisor for YU’s chapter of Psychologists for Social Responsibility (Psy R.). Dr. Salton has spent the last 15 years teaching and supervising people in their 20’s and 30’s and he has helped over 1500 graduate students enter the working world. He has a private practice on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. 

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Jason Young, Ph.D.

Position/Role: Research & Assessment Director

Dr. Jason Young received his Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Minnesota and has more than 30 years of experience. He is a professor of psychology at Hunter College in New York City, where he conducts psychological research on social influence and problem solving, workplace stress, and improving interpersonal relationships.  Dr. Young has presented internationally on the social and psychological influences on fear of crime. He has consulted and made presentations with such organizations as the Educational Testing Service, the College Board, the Psi Chi Leadership Conference, the National Institutes of Mental Health, the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service Trauma Workshop, Intergroup Brands Advertising Network, the American Psychological Association, and the APA workgroup on aligning employer skillsets with student education.  He is an officer of the International Association for Cross-Cultural Psychology,  past president of the International Psi Chi Honor Society in Psychology, and a fellow of Division 1 of APA.  He recently co-authored the book, “Resistance to Belief Change,” which examines how people’s thoughts, feelings and behaviors often impede their willingness and ability to adapt to change.

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